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ATOMICAUST LYRICS
"A Lot of Nothing" (1991 Demo)
1. From Shallows to Fathoms
2. Reach
3. A Lot of Nothing
4. Reach
5. Intense on the Brain
6. Polythene Pam
1. From Shallows to Fathoms
Into the shallows of human wit
Where the mockery of humor is cast out like spit
Where youth is bound to innocent years
And maturity writhes, swimming elders' tears
Into the shallows of human wit
Where frivolity is sought at any stage
Where youth is youth at any age
(Old's in the mind, not in its cage)
From shallows to fathoms
Where does the youth go?
Where is the turning point
Where is that telltale joint
2. Reach
Incentive births the climb
Incentive spawns the reach
Incentive is the reach
Motivated time...
Activate your climb
3. A Lot of Nothing
A lot of nothing follows me around
Credits me with its making
Tries to weigh me down
A lot of nothing screaming out my name
Reminds me of the all of anything I've never done
A little something someday maybe I'll do
Have its strength under a wing or two
A lot of nothing scraping me away
Off of the foot of digestion of the onward man
"A lot of nothing" boasts the nothing man
Laughs itself into the crowd of a stagnant nowhere land
A little something quite some steps ahead
Walks arm in arm with opportunity
A lot of nothing lay in bed
Wake up! Right now
Discuss this course, discard disgust
Dragged along by tenuous leashes
Supporting guiding the deaf sightless leech
Up, onward, past, forward
Their healthy succession finds me crawling
They're becoming more and more annoyed
At this crouching critics toy
Advice says "Be the best at what you do"
But the best that I could do
Is the worst thing that I should do
And procrastination is unfailed common ground
Discuss this course, discard disgust
And as they heave their heads to the sky
I hang mine to the ground
(What?) Too noble for the jester, too mighty for the clown?
And as the gravity of despondency clings steadfast
And the truth thrown in front of me
I am, at best
Admittedly, a human levity
Admittedly....
For....
They don't put themselves above me
I put myself below them
A little something quite some steps ahead
Someday sometime I'll birth a new life
And when it comes of age I'll wield perspective like a knife
I'll say "Do all of the something that you can"
A lot of nothing drags you nowhere fast
The words of an experienced man
4. Reach
Incentive births the climb
Incentive spawns the reach
Incentive is the reach
Motivated time...
Activate your climb
5. Intense on the Brain
Life is coming down on you
Depression sets in
When it is through (Where do we go?)
Is there a hell
Is every man's heaven outs as well
Do we take a drug to get away from the questions
That rack our brains each day
Where will I be in ten years and
How will I react if failures near
Is failure near?
What makes you so much better than me
Easy acceptance by society
The pressures of success have dragged you in
I'll not change so easily
Some think that they have life all figured out
When, beyond death is a mystery
Is death a mystery?
Is death a misery?
Are we all game pieces of a masterful mind
A supposed god in the sky
Of which we're blind to see
So what's the answer gonna be?
It gets so complicated
For persona chosen I'm being berated
By smaller men whose only motivation
Is to stir up a little anger and aggravation
I always come to the same conclusion
It's no use trying to figure out life
Although I persist in trying....
6. Polythene Pam
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